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>>Shaila Dewan and Tim Arango, The New York Times Published: 14 Apr 2021 09:22 PM BdST Updated: 14 Apr 2021 09:22 PM BdST A volunteer cleans a makeshift memorial to George Floyd outside Cup Foods in Minneapolis on Monday, April 1, 2021. Derek Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer is on trial for the death of George Floyd while in police custody last year. (Joshua Rashaad McFadden/The New York Times) A police officer approached a car with George Floyd in the front seat, and Floyd started to panic. While officers ordered him to spit out a pill he was trying to swallow, he repeatedly be...

Daunte Wright Live Updates: Protest Outside Police Station Fades Last Updated April 13, 2021, 2:06 a.m. ETApril 13, 2021, 2:06 a.m. ET The police killing in a Minneapolis suburb adds to tensions around the trial of Derek Chauvin. Protesters there defied a 7 p.m. curfew. Police officers fired tear gas and made arrests. Video Protesters gathered outside the Police Department in Brooklyn Center, Minn., for a second night, in violation of the city’s curfew. Officers fired tear gas to disperse the crowd.CreditCredit...Joshua Rashaad McFadden for The New York Times Key Updates: A protester standi...

Officer Kim Potter in 2007.Credit...Bruce Bisping/Star Tribune, via Getty Images Minnesota officials on Monday identified the police officer who shot Daunte Wright as Kim Potter, a 26-year veteran of the Brooklyn Center Police Department, and said she had been placed on administrative leave. The state’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said in a brief statement that Officer Potter had been placed on “standard administrative leave.” The statement did not elaborate, citing an active investigation. The Star Tribune newspaper reported on Monday that Officer Potter, 48, had been licensed as a...

New body camera footage shows George Floyd handcuffed on the street. April 13, 2021, 1:01 p.m. ETApril 13, 2021, 1:01 p.m. ET In newly shown footage, from the body camera of Officer Peter Chang of the Minneapolis Park Police, George Floyd is seen handcuffed and sitting on the street near a Chinese restaurant.Credit...Still image, via Court TV In new body camera footage shown to jurors on Tuesday in the trial of Derek Chauvin, George Floyd is seen handcuffed and sitting on the street near a Chinese restaurant, giving his name and birth date to one of the first police officers who arrived at Cu...

Mr. Brodd’s testimony countered that of prosecution witnesses who have argued the opposite.